Poolside Reveals 'Model Factory' Engineering System
AccBalanced · x · 2026-08-27
Poolside unveiled its 'Model Factory', an internal framework to automate foundation model training, addressing slow iteration and manual intervention. The system includes automated evaluation, RL from code execution, architecture ablations, and data refinement. The post notes Anthropic's Mythos training runs at sub-200MW and explains why Chinese labs remain competitive with less compute.
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